Towards new paradigms in Permo-Triassic Karoo palaeobotany (and associated faunas) through the past 50 years

Palaeontologia Africana

Volumn 33, Issue , 1997, Pages 11-21

  Anderson, Heidi Marguerite ^a   Anderson, John Malcolm ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Insects; Karoo; Megaflora; Permo Triassic; Tetrapods

Indexed keywords

AVES; DINOSAURIA; GLOSSOPTERIDALES; GLOSSOPTERIS; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; TETRAPODA;

PALEOBOTANY; PARADIGM SHIFT; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031545409     PISSN: 00788554     EISSN: 24104418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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